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Everyone Loves a Winner…Or Do They? Introducing Envy into a Sales Contest to Increase Salesperson Motivation
This paper focuses on the role that envy can play in driving sales force behavior in competitions. Envy, an unpleasant emotion that occurs when a person covets something that another has, can be used as a motivating tool to push lower-ranked salespeople to better compete with high achievers. Following a review of envy and sales contest effectiveness, potential strategies are provided for implementing benign envy while avoiding the potential negative consequences of envy. Sales managers must be careful to ensure that envy is induced properly to engage the employees while not negatively affecting the long-term health of the sales force
Honor Among Salespeople: Using an Ethical Role Play and Code of Ethics Exercise to Develop an Ethical Framework in a Professional Selling Course
Building on recommendations from both sales educators and the AACSB, the authors propose a three-step approach to assist professors in teaching ethics in a Professional Sales course. An ethics module is presented that consists of an ethics role play, a discussion of “grey area” situations that a salesperson will often experience, and a Code of Ethics written assignment that will allow students to experience, analyze, and reinforce positive ethical behavior in order to help prepare them for sales careers. Following a detailed explanation of each exercise, student feedback is presented to support this multi-faceted ethics program as a valuable contribution to sales education
It Takes Two: Developing a Successful Partnership between Clients and Students in Client-Based Projects
Both faculty and employers are motivated to advance learning beyond the classroom in order to teach skills required by graduates to succeed in business careers. The authors use a client-based project to build a bridge between marketing theory and practice, allowing students to develop their skills within a course while working with a real company. The authors demonstrate how a client-based project can succeed in the classroom with motivating incentives, positive client engagement, and earning real-world experience-all of which positively enhanced students \u27participation, project deliverables, and enjoyment in the class project
Professor Walks into a Bar: Using Humor and Q-Score to Determine Instructor and Department Appeal
Building on existing research on humor in the classroom, the authors propose a research design that examines the effect of humor on a professor\u27s effectiveness in the classroom. The concept of Q-Score is applied to academia, which is a popular rating used by advertisers to measure source attractiveness and determine celebrity appeal. Several factors leading to teaching effectiveness and “favorite prof” status are explored in addition to overall effects of humor in the classroom. This study combines evaluations from popular student-viewed websites, student evaluations, and a Humor Orientation scale. An awareness and application of this metric can assist professors in marketing themselves, the discipline, and the major
Minuscule reverse plane partitions via quiver representations
A nilpotent endomorphism of a quiver representation induces a linear
transformation on the vector space at each vertex. Generically among all
nilpotent endomorphisms, there is a well-defined Jordan form for these linear
transformations, which is an interesting new invariant of a quiver
representation. If is a Dynkin quiver and is a minuscule vertex, we
show that representations consisting of direct sums of indecomposable
representations all including in their support, the category of which we
denote by , are determined up to isomorphism by this
invariant. We use this invariant to define a bijection from isomorphism classes
of representations in to reverse plane partitions whose
shape is the minuscule poset corresponding to and . By relating the
piecewise-linear promotion action on reverse plane partitions to
Auslander-Reiten translation in the derived category, we give a uniform proof
that the order of promotion equals the Coxeter number. In type , we show
that special cases of our bijection include the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth and
Hillman-Grassl correspondences.Comment: Comments welcom
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